You can really help with actions, not with words - this is the basic principle that encourages us all to act and turns our compassion into actual help, wrote Justice Minister Judit Varga in her latest Facebook post on Friday.
Continuing her thoughts, the minister wrote: this basic principle was the starting point for the opening of the first Victim Support Center in 2017 and the same is true today, when we are now handing over the ninth center nationally in Nyíregyháza.
The primary task of the state is to reduce and mitigate the material, moral, and spiritual damage caused by crime and, as far as possible, to eliminate them.
The aim of the Victim Support Centers, established at the initiative of the Ministry of Justice, is to provide victims with all the help they need. Our goal is to create a safe environment that not only provides relief, but also hope for victims. Establishing an institutional network that significantly reduces the problem and makes the future easier. In this, we provide not only spiritual, physical and legal support, but also financial support to all those who are victims of intimate partner violence, abused children, vulnerable family members or those who are indirectly affected by crimes.
It is important to highlight that from November 1, 2021, in order to make immediate assistance available to the widest possible range of victims, not only in the case of violent crimes against the person, but also sexual abuse committed to the detriment of the victims, fencing, exploitation of child prostitution, harassment, There is also immediate HELP in the case of robbery and theft.
Victim assistance capacities are constantly expanding. Now nine major cities - Budapest, Miskolc, Szeged, Pécs, Kecskemét, Szolnok, Veszprém, Szombathely and, from today, Nyíregyháza - have Victim Support Centers, and a Victim Support Point operates in Salgótarján to help our compatriots in trouble.
We continue the work, our goal is national coverage so that every county seat has a Victim Support Center by 2025.
